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Taxonomy of the genus Rankinia Biodiversity of the family Agamidae

Bibliography of the genus
Rankinia (Mountain Heath Dragon)

(Reptilia: Sauria: Agamidae)

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Rankinia diemensis

Gray, J.E. 1841. Description of some new species and four new genera of reptiles from Western Australia, discovered by John Gould, Esq. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (London) 7: 86-91.

Green, R.H. 1984. The Vegetation, Fauna and Archaeology of Ordnance Point, North-Western Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 84: 1-67.

Hutchinson, M. 2010. Rankinia diemensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T176219A7198520. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T176219A7198520.en.

Kent, D.S. 1987. Notes on the biology and osteology of Amphibolurus diemensis (Gray, 1841), the mountain dragon. Victorian Naturalist 104(4): 101-104.

Melville, J.; Schulte, J.A.; Larson, A. 2001. A molecular phylogenetic study of ecological diversification in the Australian lizard genus Ctenophorus. Journal of Experimental Zoology 291(4): 339-353.

Ng, J.; Clemann, N.; Chapple, S.N.J.; Melville, J. 2014. Phylogeographic evidence links the threatened 'Grampians' Mountain Dragon (Rankinia diemensis Grampians) with Tasmanian populations: conservation implications in south-eastern Australia. Conservation Genetics 15(2): 363-373.

Rose, R.J.; Ng, J.; Melville, J. 2006. A technique for restraining lizards for field and laboratory measurements. Herpetological Review 37(2): 194-195.

Stuart-Smith, J.; Swain, R.; Stuart-Smith, R.D.; Wapstra, E. 2007. Is fecundity the ultimate cause of female-biased size dimorphism in a dragon lizard? Journal of Zoology (London) 273(3): 266-272.

Stuart-Smith, J.; Swain, R.; Wapstra, E. 2007. The role of body size in competition and mate choice in an agamid with female-biased size dimorphism. Behaviour 144(9): 1087-1102.

Stuart-Smith, J.; Swain, R.; Welling, A. 2005. Reproductive ecology of the mountain dragon, Rankinia (Tympanocryptis) diemensis (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) in Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 139: 23-28.

Stuart-Smith, J.F.; Stuart-Smith, R.D.; Swain, R.; Wapstra, E. 2008. Size dimorphism in Rankinia (Tympanocryptis) diemensis (family Agamidae): sex-specific patterns and geographic variation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 94(4): 699-709.

Tasoulis, T. 1980. Range extension for Amphibolurus diemensis. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 11(2): 27.

Welling, A. 1999. A Study of the Ecology of the Mountain Dragon, Tympanocryptis diemensis. B.Sc. (Hons.) Thesis, University of Tasmania.

Williams, D. 1992. Further evidence to support a range extension of the mountain dragon, Rankinia diemensis. Sydney Basin Naturalist 1: 100.